On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:10:29AM -0600, Justin Kremer wrote:
> on my computer at work, i have this in root's crontab and it works pretty
> slick:
> 30 16 * * * apt-get clean
> 37 16 * * * apt-get update
> 39 16 * * * apt-get -yd dist-upgrade

Why use separate cron jobs for these three steps?  What if update takes
longer than 2 minutes to run?  I'd recommend combining the steps into
one cron job:

30 16 * * * apt-get clean && apt-get update && apt-get -yd dist-upgrade

Nate

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